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May 1, 2014

• Press freedom in Pakistan has deadly consequences
• Joco notebook: Nine SM North students awarded legacy scholarships
• Missouri Senate passes gun nullification bill
• Kansas lawmakers to vote on ending renewable energy standards
• Kansas budget negotiators consider $250 bonus instead of raise for state employees
• Conservative group ALEC will meet Friday in Kansas City to develop state bills
• Missouri legislature approves cannabis extract sought by parents of ailing kids
• Brownback-Obama blame game as Kansas' bond rating is cut amid revenue shortfall
• Moody’s downgrades Kansas’ credit rating, citing sluggish recovery and risky tax plan
• Lineups for Thursday’s Royals-Blue Jays game
• Royals bring back Mitch Maier with minor-league contract
• Oregon’s De’Anthony Thomas may be small but has contributed mightily
• Chiefs switch to variable pricing for single-game ticket sales
• Sporting Kansas City will be missing three key players for Sunday’s game
• The Star’s high school athletes of the week for May 1
• Naadir Tharpe is leaving Kansas basketball
• Conservative ALEC gathering in Kansas City will work on power and policy
• Holocaust movie, affirmative action, private tuition
• Supreme Court ruling is a big victory for cleaner air
• Florida loves Jeb Bush, but it may like Hillary Clinton more
• War Fare Chow Challenge
• Weston family prays with members of Congress in remembrance of son killed in terror attack
• ‘You’re doing the Lord’s work,’ Obama tells teachers
• Education Department releases list of schools under investigation for sexual assaults
• GWB: Run, Jeb, Run
• Obama to meet with Merkel at WH with Ukraine on agenda
• White House calls for stronger privacy laws to protect consumers’ data
• Congressman expresses worry that little’s being done to stop violence in Central Africa Republic
• Florida senator calls on EPA to review oil-drilling incident
• Geophysicists link fracking boom to increase in earthquakes
• BuzzChatter Thursday: The most popular lawmaker in the General Assembly?
• Perhaps they call it May Day for a reason
• Nixon points to Kansas as one more reason for tax-cut veto
• Man pleads guilty in theft of Independence statue
• Kansas budget talks resuming after bleak revenue report
• Kansas lawmakers mull challenge to listing of prairie chicken as endangered
• Oregon man accused of traveling to Kansas City to have sex with minors
• Hang on Kansas City. Temps in the 80s on the way
• Brownback gets bill mandating ‘Hard 50’ in Kansas for first-degree murder
• Former Olathe school bus driver faces child sex charge
• Rolla police chief warns of bad batch of heroin
• Missing mother and young daughter found safe
• Missouri man killed in head-on collision in southeast Kansas
• Local high schools dominate Kansas rankings for college readiness
• Gov. Nixon will veto income tax cut
• Missouri lawmakers pass cannabis extract bill
• Naked, bloody man tells school bus driver: ‘Someone just killed my girlfriend!’
• Olathe man is sentenced for setting fire and firing shots as firefighters arrived
• Student is charged with making a terroristic threat against Raymore-Peculiar High School
• Area phone scams involve phony sheriff’s deputies
• Juvenile authorities charge two teens in apparently accidental shooting death
• Kansas City teens can register now for Club KC
• Kansas City man pleads guilty to manslaughter in wreck in which motorcyclist died
• Growing pet DNA industry identifies poop offenders
• Here's where traffic could get ugly during summer road work in KC
• KCK lawyer, Royals general counsel confirmed as new federal judge
• Man's alleged butcher knife brutality returns 32 years later
• Art competition will benefit the Penn Valley Park Conservancy
• Residents speak out on vision for Roeland Park
• Winning numbers for Thursday, May 1
• May 1 high school results
• Shawnee Mission East sweeps Sunflower League tennis meet
• Shriners are casting for dollars to send kids to the circus
• ‘'Le Week-End’: Smart scenes from a doomed marriage | 3.5 stars
• ‘Finding Vivian Maier’: Documentary turns the camera on a photographer | 3 stars
• ‘Alan Partridge’: You’ll laugh, you’ll squirm | 3 stars
• Rebels find hope in new offensives in northern Syria after months of setbacks
• Is Assad testing the West on chemical weapons?
• Fading few of ‘Greatest Generation’ revisit their past at WWII Memorial
• Penn State listed among universities under investigation for possible Title IX violations
• Kerry warns of famine and genocide in South Sudan
• How’s this for counterintuitive? Pentagon hails jump in reported sexual assault cases
• Young adults fuel final surge in health insurance enrollment
• NASCAR Sprint Cup: Talladega qualifying will be an Aaron’s 499 preview
• Another U.S. Marine shackled in Mexican prison on gun charges
• PivotDesk launches office sharing service in the Kansas City area
• Wheat tour members find crop in worse shape than in 2013
• Young adults helped Obamacare signups surpass goal, government says
• Missouri lawmakers pass changes to payday loans
• Midwest manufacturing expands faster than jobs
• YRC losses soar because of winter weather and labor talks
• Ferrellgas diversifies outside propane industry by acquiring Texas company
• KCI traffic increased in March
• New data suggests economy is indeed growing
• AT&T is reportedly courting DirecTV
• T-Mobile adds 1.3 million customers
• Tharpe's departure leaves Kansas basketball seeking point guard
• Kansas to break ground on DeBruce Center, which will house original “Rules of Basket Ball”
• Breaking down KU's frontcourt after Myles Turner's decision
• $90 million sought to grow Wichita jobs, possibly from sales tax
• Royals fall to Blue Jays 7-3
• Replay: Live updates, stats from Thursday's Royals-Blue Jays game
• Chen too achy; Duffy might start
• Mizzou coach Kim Anderson is keeping Bryan Tibaldi as director of basketball operations
• Coach Factory will open a pop-up store in KCK’s Legends Outlets
• Dodge City Distillery closes in Olathe
• Firehouse Subs & Spin Neapolitan Pizza to open in Overland Park’s Corbin Park